[Python-ideas] Yet Another Switch-Case Syntax Proposal

[Philipp A.]

2014-04-26 17:07 GMT+02:00 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>:

> The reason why people keep coming back to a series of comparisons
> (actually more general: a series of branch on tests) is that a series
> of comparisons is behaviorally equivalent to a switch.  Written in
> appropriate style it's obvious that it is intended to have the effect
> of a switch.  The code implementing a case is given "naturally" after
> mentioning the case.  Given all that, it seems unnecessary to add new
> syntax.
>
> Starting from that summary of the thread, what are you trying to
> argue?
>

only that all the discussion about series of comparisons don’t paint the
full picture; that the Case class isn’t enough.
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